New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-12-30
PRICE THREE CENTS
COLD WINDS FROM THE WEST.
ROARING TEMPEST IN The CITY.
SUDDEN AND PAINFUL DROP OF THE TEMPERATE


Like young L0chinyar, the cold wave has come
| out OF the West, and the Signal Service observer
is reasonably happy for his predictions have been
fulfilled to the letter. The temperature steadily
lcI during Wednesday night, and at ; a. m yester-
DAY the Thermometer marked twelve degrees above
zero. In the course of the next few hours it gained
two degrees and at daylight indicated fourteen de-
grces. In the early forenoon the mercury stood at
l6". About noon it had climbed up to 2je and
shortly before o'clock at 800.
The temperature then began to fall again with
great rapidity, and at p. m. was down to GO,
cording to the Signal Service Bureaus instrument.
and about s. according to Iudnuts. which is in
a less exposed place and will never be so low as tho
Official tempcrature-rccordcr just in summer it
was always higher by few degrees.
THE NORTHWEST WIND DID ITS WORK
1he cold, severe as it was, would have been
bearablc yesterday had the air been STILL but "a
piercing gale of bleak northwest wind blowing
at velocity ranging from forty to forty-eight
miles an hour added tremendously to the dscom-
fort of people who had to be abroad.
IN the early afternoon the
gale was at its height and it was then blowing
steadily On Wednesday the wind attained rs
great speed but the storm ragged in itful gusts Yes
tcrday it swept down the streets and howlcd in
the chmneys with such even force that it seemed
10 have a much greater strength than it really had.
cOlnlOrtleSS
this season. The wind had keen, cutting edgo
and It's chill, searching thruStS seemed TO penetrate
10 the very marrow of ones bones. Men and
woman hurried against it with faces blue with
cold. and now and again little sand-storm OF
fine dust grated in their chattering teeth, and
made the tears stream from their blinded eyes.
The pools that Wednesdays heavy ram Left
in the hOllOws of the streets were frozen hard
and every sheet Of water in the city and lis vicin
it was possible the boys and girls made slides
on the pavcmcnt and these public nusanccs caused
as many tumbles as they always do.
\ search Of the records reveals the fact th2t
the coolest day of the present year January
10 when the tcmpemture degrees above
zero, degrees below yesterdays coolest point.
Here i a list Of the other minimum temperatures
experienced in this city in the last eight years:
On February l s. 1855. 3 DEGREES below zero was
registered February 6. | $50, zero; on Dcccm-
Der 81. Ss4, O.? degrees above zero; on January
81. 1913. 35 degrees above zero: on January O.
1852. degree below zero on February 2s, Ssl
l degree above zero: on December 81. $50. 8 de-
grccs below zero. From these figures it Is safe 10
predict that the coolest day Of this winter Is vet
TO come. The present cold spell will: according 20
the Siona Service forecast. last to-day and prob
ably begin to pass away tomorrow.
HOW THE RFsT OF THE COUNTRY SUFFERED
The extent of country covered ny the cold wave
was large including the whole area east of the
Rocky Mountains from the Northwest to the Gulf
Of Mexico. and from Florida to the coast Of Maine
Ncw-Yorl was by no means the coolest place. At
Fort Garry. Manitoba. and st. Vincent. Mimi. the
mercury fell forty degree, below zero. At st.
Paul the record was - degrees below: at Bis
marcl1. Dakota. 81 degrees below: at st. Louis,
. degrees below: at Chicago. degrees bclow; at
North Platte. Ncb., 10 degrees below; at New
Orleans and Jacksonville Fla. the thcrnomctcr in
dicatcd freeing point: az Boston, . degree. above
zero; at Philadelphia, 6 dclle above; at Onaha,
10 degrees below.
Storm signals were mp last night all along the
Atlantic coast from Jacksonville. Iia. T. Eastport,
Me- The wind was blowing violently of shore pre-
venting many vessels from making hrbor, on tho
shores of Staten Island the wind caused the sea sea to
rccedc unusually tar AT low tide: Split Rock. IN
the bay OF Tomphinsville whlch had NOT been seen
for several years. was exposed TO vieN ana wagon
loads Of hard shell clans were gathered along tho
Tlc lee companies have not yet made any ar-
ranccmrnt, lur rrovling ncNt summers supply.
They .o not hc-ln cutting the Ice on Tho Hudson
III IN i, a foot thick and they say that it viii
bee 50 long before il freezes sufficiently that there
is rlcntv Of time to make pwuarlion for th'
work; Another plausible cNrlanation OF tnclr
taplmo>s.-uot suggested to thom. howoycr-is
tlat the lonacr tic delay the bigger the prices
they will demand.
~Hyorus" WAS II r'rr AIR.
The cold wavc had a remarkable effect on
John Uovlc who WAS brought before JHd@e o.
Reilly at the Tombs Police Court yesterday ON n
char-c Of drunk nncSs.
WEN yer honor cypla,in.cd ,Ioyc when o.l.ca
sllyo'u> IN The air last n-ht'
\ What" asked the Judge.
SllyotuS. yer honor
W,ll yer honor when the atmosphere j. cold
enough 10 freeze yer upper and loWor teeth 10
rcthcr, then yc may be sure there's s0oinS IN
Thc. sl,yotuS didn't make You drunk sug-
~Wh'n nv tce5h frozc torotlcr 7 knew from
cvucricnc, that whi>kcy was the only remedy fer
such kind of lo!clll@w. drew ~ thr Wn'>k,r
thiou.h my teeth. II was slow work. and before
ever know IL was full. yer honor
Go do.,s 10 Warden Walsh" said il' judi:
" and irll hiil to keep You five daNs. ~ y. cnd
Of -'..' time the >lyotus may not bc IN NcW-l sr1
That's according to lloylcT remarked Conrt
officer FaWc'ft aN he gently Ied john doNhN''lfS'
SEVERAL PRISONS FROZEN To DEATH.
II Nosr CtSrS UQroG HAD SOMETHING 10 30
WITH THE CASUALTIES.
Ar,rlv. rex D,c 20 Henry Wise, farmer. vas
found yes,cr y frozen 20 death ten mics frem this e'i
lie was rc'uruin; home with q team anl While crossing
muddy bottom fell out Of tie wagon. burvinr his head
and shoulders I'm the mud. in which position he vas
founL Iii thought that as drunk when he fall
from the wagon HIS mules also .rozen stu willis
stsulias n the mud basls his body This Is the first
death by freezing which ever occrrrc in this region
MILWAUKEE,. Dee. %. \di'pltcht' Ft' Ere"nv us.
Qunncy. found rozsn to death IN tarmyari tLree
miles from SorkhrigN Dan " DE Grot. an nn',, M 9t
had mbibad too freely otsprt'.
Cruc,co Dec. 2o.-Ioan DO'ley was SO i'll yesteriay
ment to the d,ns man n XIX IA 5 rsn wi' into M h tr@t.
a,, ,m rho sfreefs begsre liza was pros'-aiel by tho
i,t.,se c,ld ~ not known bur Officers kcR anl Casey
found his body a o'clock this morning..
CI>ct>.lrI Dee. % -PatrOm9n last night observed
man lind He'd M ia doorway ttth st. ana EsglcsOR
ave With ssms difficulty they got him 10 tho sta on
rouse whore they told by him tina; his name was
Patrick q 1ren aga thrts-sN. OF Iowa; that Il, was
ractor AMI visit his brother in Eastern
ave- THE officers found 5000 in monsy aaa 5000 in
checks payable him. his person. besides valu b!e
gold watch aud diamond cwery. Mr. Oirsns escape
from robbery as well freezing il remarkdbis for The
locality In which he found one ot the worst In tho
city.
SEVERE GALE ON THE NEW-ENGLAND COAST
RocKLANp Me-, Dec ga southeast gale RACED hero
all isht with great fury, doing damage 10 shipping IN